Receptacle for materials to be applied with a brush.



' PATENTED JUNE 23, 1908.

o. F. JENKINS.

REOEPTAGLE FOR MATERIALS TO BE APP-LIED WITH A BRUSH.

m ad APPLIOATION FILED APR. 8,1908.

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Witness OHARLES FRANCIS JENKINS, OFIWASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

RECEPTAGLE FOR MATERIALS TO BE APPLIED WITH A BRU SH.

Speciflcationp'f Letters Patent.

Patented June 23, 1908.

Application filed April 8, 1908 Serial Ka -125,827.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat. I,

ing at Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Receptacles for Materials to e Applied with a Brush, of which the fol- I lowing 1s a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

The objects of this invention are to provide a sim 1e, convenient, and inexpensive rece tacle or material which is to be used or app led with a brush, to construct such receptacle in such manner that surplus may be removed from the brush without danger of' smearing the ordinary closure, and to provide for hermetically closing the receptacle for shi ment, the entire apparatus being adapted for arranging in compact form for wrapping when shipped or kept in stock.

In the accompanying drawin s,'Figure 1 is a plan view of the receptacle, t e brush and a closure attached thereto in use, being omitted. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22.

of Fig. 1, the brush and closure being in place. Fig. 3 is a like section, showing the receptacle andits closure ready for wrapping. Fig. 4; 'is a view similar to Fig. 2, showing a sli htly modified construction and illustrating t e removal of surplus from the brush.- Fig. 5 is a plan view of a modified closure. Fig. 6 is a diametrical section,

, showingl the modified closure in place.

In t ese views, A re resents a hollow cylindrical body, provide with a bottom B and near its upper end with afixed diaphragm 0 having a central opening 0, all. these arts proof against the action of most ligfiulilds preferably being made of paper reni tered y a suitable agent, for example, para The bottom is an inverted cu cemented in lace with its cylindrical wallsfmcreasing the t ickness and strength of the lower end and edge of thebody. The dia hragm is of a similar form but inverted so t at the upper edge of its walls forms a shoulder C to support, at some distance above the dia hragm, a closure carried by a brushD an consistingof a disk E fitting in the u per end of the recaptacle and forming a c osure both by fitting in the body A and by resting against its shoulder C In Fig. 6, the disk E is sufficiently deep to press againstthe opening in the diaphra m,

ut is similar to the stopper E, all 01; er

details.

CHARLES FnA'NoIs- JENKINS, citizen of the United States, resid-.

pass outward therefrom. The sealing) rece tacle,

The diaphragm may, if desired, be downwardly convex or conical, as in Fig. 4, so that 'the surplus which it removes from the brush tends to drip from. the edge rather than {)to the cover or closure E is at a distance a ovI; the diaphragm and so far, horizontally, from the opening C that even in careless use the brush never touches the sealin line. The brush handle is preferably cylindrical and frictionallyheld in the disk E, so that it may be adjusted to reach downward to any desired-pointin the receptacle. The disk,.

which maybe made of wood, is shown as solid and thick enough to give a good bearing for its handle. The disk is obviously not necessarily solid, and the long bearing for the handle ma be obtained by other means.

Whent e foods are to be wrapped for shi ment or storage, the filled receptacle may be ermetically closed by a sto per F laced in the aperture C the disk may lse inverted and placed in the upper end of the receptacle as shown, and the rush being laid alongside the receptacle, the whole may be wrapped to form a single package.

Instead of using the stopper of Fig. 4, I sometimes employ a square imperforate piece H of thin parafiined paper u on which the disk is centrally placed and bot are then forced into the upper part of the receptacle, the" a er sto ping both the perforation in the is and 516 opening in the diaphragm. If the disk be first heated, the softening of the paraffin causes perfect sealing. The

iece of a er is lar e enough so that its P P g when the disk is inserted in the roject upwardly outward beyon the dis and serve for pulling the disk out when desired. The paper'at the edges of the disk aids in binding the latter in place.

This receptacle is used for mucilage and other adheslves; for small paint cans, and the like.

What I claim is: V

corners 1. The combination with a cylindrical receptacle, of a diaphragm having an upturned marginal flange and a central opening, a centrally perforated disk closure adapted to fit loosely in said rece tacle and rest upon said flange, and a brus tionali yl l held in the perforation in said disk.

having its handle frice combination with a cylindrical receptacle having a shoulder at some distance be ow its upper end, of a centrally perforated brush-carrymgdisk adapted to rest upon said shoulder and close the upper end of the I u on said flange and removably fitting and receptacle, and a centrally erforated diafil ling the upper part of the receptacle, and phra m, fixed in the reeeptac e a little below a brush adapted for vertical adjustment in the c osing disk. the perforation in said disk.

5 3. The combination with a cylindrical re- In testimony whereof I aflix my signature 15 ceptacle, of a diaphragm fixed in the recepin presence of two witnesses. tacle below its top, and provided with an up- CHARLES FRANCIS JENKINS. turned marginal flange fitting the recep- Witnesses: tacle and with a relatively small central open- WALLACE GREENE.

10 ing, of a centrally perforated disk resting R. CRAIG GREENE. 

